1-ton sway bar with Tubular A-frames?

[charx2]

I went to a junk yard and found a nice 73 1 ton dually I think it was and grabbed the sway bar. Anyway, I get home to notice that I have tubular A-frames and there is no place to bolt the factory sway bar to, it seems I would have to buy the one that mounts through those mounting shafts (I guess that's what there called). Now I'm wondering if there is a way to possibly mount this factory nice big sway bar, to my tubular A-frames. I searched and searched but could not find anything on this. My Tubular A-frames are the strongman A-frames. Similar to these http://*******************/-63-87-ful...lar-lower-arms Has anyone ever tried or heard of someone mounting the factory sway bars to tubular A-frames? I think it would involve drilling 2 holes in the lower A-frame which I really don't want to do unless it would'nt really hurt anything. My truck is also bagged if that really makes a difference. Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

[charx2]

Really? No one knows about this?
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[lolife99]

You will need a different sway bar.
You need one with "end links",... like a passenger car sway bar.
Put your sway bar on the classifieds board and sell it.
Get a sway bar from Porterbuilt Street Rods.
They are around $200-$225.
Much cheaper than the RideTech $400+ sway bar.

[lolife99]

Here's another option,...

http://www.performanceonline.com/196...ANCE-SWAY-BAR/

[hotroddr]

I would think you could use something like this on your sway bar and weld a tab to your lower control arms, then use heim joints to connect the two. Im planning on doing something similar on my truck here in the next month or so.

[charx2]

Hmmm....hotroddr, you might be on to something. I might have to draw something up to see if I could do it. I'm a amateur fabricator which means I don't know what I'm doing lol, but how better to learn than by doing it right? Thanks for the advice guys, I'll see if it's possible for me to fab up something, if not, I'll have to buy one I guess.

[LEEVON]

I ran into a similar problem recently. I bought a CPP sway bar and it has the bolt-style end links. Well I have older DJM 3" drop lower control arms and frankly didn't even know if they had any provisions for a sway bar but figured it wouldn't be difficult to fix. Turns out they did have mounts for the factory bar (the one I believe you're talking about) welded behind the front tube. Essentially they're just flat plates with two holes for the brackets in the same location as your factory arms would have a flat spot with two holes (pictured).

So my input is yes, if you have a welder and some plate, you could easily fabricate mounting points the lower arms but I don't think you will be able to just drill holes in those arms (the ones in the link) because the lower plate is below the tube and your sway bar mounts on top of the arm. Either factory or link style sway bar if your arms have no mounting provisions now you will need to fabricate something. It's my understanding that the link style bars bind less and are superior in that regard.

My problem was that the link-style sway bar has big bushings on the ends of the bolt, and although the mounting tab lined up there was no way to fit the bushing under the plate and next to the tube so I had to fabricate a 1" spacer, basically a piece of 3/16" steel to raise the mounting point. No problems from there.

This is what you need: